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Yes, obvious typo. The world’s first inter-city railway opened in 1830 (not 1930!) and carried freight from the beginning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live

• rjsw 6y ago
  The Stockton and Darlington railway [1] opened in 1825 and carried freight (coal) from the beginning. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railway#Early_operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railwa...
• tialaramex 6y ago
  Indeed. There's an entire genre of board game called 18xx because the games tend to be named for the year in which railways were built or opened somewhere and most places got one in the 19th century. They're all games about getting rich while building some (alternates history version of) a particular piece of railway network, e.g. 1830 is about the Eastern United States. There is always some need for players to build and run railways but often the winner isn't somebody who was successful at actually doing that since the score is money.